Enclosed is a database of the 101 deadly force incidents in Oregon (or involving Oregon law enforcement) from January 2010 to July 2014 as reported in our newsletter, the People's Police Report. We're sending them to you to be sure the list of such incidents that you are keeping in compliance with SB 111 -2007 (Section 6(7)) at least contains these data.

We are aware that there may be other incidents which we did not come across when researching our newsletter and thus this list may be incomplete. We hope that each county has been providing you with the name, gender, race, ethnicity and age of each civilian involved as well as the location, time, date and description of the incident as required by Section 6(6) of SB 111. We look forward to the Oregon DOJ's "periodic publication" of this information, as we have never seen it printed anywhere.

* Veterans: We noted that at least five of the victims were primarily identified as military veterans in some kind of psychological crisis. (We suspect a large number of victims had mental health issues, but are unable to track that for all cases.)

As far as we know, only one of the shootings has resulted in an

indictment-- Officer Dane Reister in Portland shot an gravely wounded William Monroe with a "bean bag" shotgun loaded with live rounds.

We are aware that at least three other incidents occurred since the end of

July-- a shooting death at Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution on Aug. 29, a woman shot and wounded by Springfield Police the same day (bringing the number of women shot to 5), and a shooting that wounded an African American suspect in Portland on Sept. 1 (taking Portland to 23 shootings in the 5 years, and 26 percent of those shot/shot at being black). For various reasons, we chose to publish our study at this time but may update the statistics in January.

We thank you for your attention to this matter.

Dan Handelman

Portland Copwatch

NOTES:

(A) Explanation of data other than shootings by Oregon law enforcement (or not in Oregon) resulting in injury or death:

---Shootings with no hits are included because the officer(s) intended to injure or kill the suspects, so the incidents should be tracked as deadly force anyway and investigated as attempted homicides.

---Incidents involving federal agencies within Oregon's borders should be of concern to the State.

---The incident near Lincoln City in 2014 in which an officer using a patrol car struck a suspect who was on foot should be counted as deadly force, especially since the suspect ended up in critical condition.

---An incident in Wishram, Washington involved deadly force by a plainclothes officer from The Dalles.

--By county: 30 in Multnomah, 16 in Washington, 13 in Marion, 7 in Clackamas, 7 in Jackson, 3 in Columbia, 3 in Lane, 2 in Deschutes, 2 in Douglas, 2 in Lincoln, 2 in Linn, 2 in Umatilla, 2 in Wasco, 2 in Yamhill, and 1 each in Benton, Clatsop, Jefferson, Klamath, Lake, Malheur, and Union.